Episode 1621

	Sesame Street
	Making deliveries in the blizzard
Air date	January 25, 1982
Season	Season 13 (1981-1982)
Written by	John Glines
Sponsors	N, O, 11
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Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	The blizzard has put the entire city at a stand still. David tries his best to shovel a path to Hooper's Store, which currently has no heat. Bob also has no heat up in his apartment. Maria invites them into the Fix-It Shop, where the heat is working. They all wonder about Big Bird and how he's dealing with the snow in his nest. They trudge over and find a large pile of snow cover his nest, with a sole yellow feather sticking out. They start to dig him out, when Big Bird appears behind them. He digs as well, stating that Radar is buried in the snow.
	Cartoon	The Ringmaster displays 11 purple pooches. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 1347)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert explore an Egyptian pyramid. Bert is excited, but Ernie is afraid. They see statues that look like them. Bert decides to explore a tunnel while Ernie looks at the statues, and then the Ernie statue starts tapping and talking to Ernie. But when Ernie calls Bert back to the room, the statue doesn't move. Ernie is scared until the statue starts singing Rubber Duckie with him. Bert doesn't believe Ernie, until he says "Bye-bye, statue," and the statue replies "Bye-bye!" and laughs... just like Ernie.
	Song	"I'm Winter and I'm Cold!" Beware! (First: Episode 1392)
	Cartoon	"It's A Lovely Eleven Morning" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0362)
	Film	City alphabet (Joe Raposo instrumental with kid voiceover) (First: Episode 0132)
	Cartoon	A girl and elephant show heavy and light. (First: Episode 0785)
	Muppets	Sesame Street News Flash: The miller's daughter is in danger of losing her baby if she cannot guess the first name of Rumpelstiltskin. Kermit offers a hotline, Sesame Street-555, for people to call in and help her. The name ends up being Bruce Rumpelstiltskin, but unfortunately for Kermit, he picked the wrong place to hide: the baby's carriage! (First: Episode 0724)
	SCENE 2	Mrs. Bolinski calls down to her neighbors, requesting some ingredients to make some hot, vegetable soup with. Maria and Mercedes go to Hooper's and tell David. Big Bird proposes they try to help people on other, surrounding blocks as well. David starts to cook, Bob offers to call folks in need from his telephone, Big Bird can deliver food with a trash can lid for a sled and they suggest Barkley deliver hot chocolate via a keg tied around his neck.
	Cartoon	A girl uses her paint-by-the-numbers set to find an elephant in her picture. (First: Episode 0510)
	Muppets	Ernie & Bert — Lefty the Salesman wants to sell Ernie a painting of a tree, which he says is a picture of four elephants. Ernie doesn't see the four elephants, so Lefty offers to show him the elephants if Ernie will buy the picture for a nickel. Lefty points out the elephants, which are actually spaces in the tree's branches. Ernie shells out for the picture. Ernie wants to pull the same trick on Bert, but Bert notices the elephants right away. (First: Episode 0292)
	Cartoon	A Spanish-speaking man seeks agua in the desert. A cowboy gives him a glass, and he uses it to wash his hands. (First: Episode 0928)
	Film	A little girl gets herself a glass of AGUA. (First: Episode 0929)
	Cartoon	The word AGUA fills up with water. (EKA: Episode 0593)
	Muppets	"Disco Toothbrush" (First: Episode 1314)
	Cartoon	A girl tries to lure her cat out from under the chair so she can pick him up. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0187)
	Celebrity	Edith Ann talks about the time she made a sandwich. (First: Episode 0890)
	Cartoon	The letters H, E, L and P try to arrange themselves to form the word "Help" while stuck on an island. (First: Episode 1176)
	Muppets	Ernie plays a game of "Touch Your Face" with the viewer. (First: Episode 0869)
	SCENE 3	The gang's delivery system has been working perfectly, except Barkley's been drinking all the hot chocolate (causing his body to make a "sloshing" sound when he moves).
	Animation	Sand O/o (First: Episode 0621)
	Muppets	Alphabet Chat: O Mr. Chatterly tries to deliver a lecture about the letter O, but is distracted by several things that don't begin with O, like a rabbit walking with a cow. The Anything Muppet producers decide to cancel the show and take down the set. (First: Episode 0837)
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: O for Open (First: Episode 0014)
	Film	"I Love Being a Pig" (First: Episode 0572)
	Muppets	The Two-Headed Monster finds a piano and decides to play it. The left half wants to play short notes, while the other half prefers to run his fingers across the keyboard. They decide to cooperate, and both use their notes to play "Chopsticks". (First: Episode 1366)
	Film	Most animals have two eyes, ears, etc. ... but some snakes have two heads. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0287)
	Cartoon	I Love You, in American Sign Language Artist: Steve Finkin (First: Episode 1170)
	Muppets	A Large Lavender Live Hand Anything Muppet cowboy shouts across a canyon to hear the echo. "Yippee ki-yi-yo!" is repeated back to him perfectly. When he shouts "One!", the echo repeats back, "¡Uno!" The cowboy is startled. "Two!" he shouts, and the echo repeats, "¡Dos!" "You s'pose that's Mexico over there?" he asks. He continues to count to ten, with the echo repeating the numbers back in Spanish. Frustrated, he shouts, "How are you?" "¡Muy bien, gracias!" is the reply. "Oh, this is ridiculous," the cowboy says, and throws his cowboy hat into the canyon. A sombrero is thrown back in return. (First: Episode 0698)
	Cartoon	An O rolls over and over a horse. The horse eats the O. Artist: John Paratore (First: Episode 0173)
	Cast	Gordon and Luis cooperate to clean up a pile of litter with a dustpan and broom. (First: Episode 0909)
	Cartoon	An N-terview with an N (Spanish version) Artist: John Paratore (First: Episode 0529)
	Muppets	On a cold day, the Twiddlebugs try to figure out what they should close to make themselves warm. After they try closing a book, a lunchbox and their mouths, Tina sees they must close the door. Once they're warm, they decide to go outside, but can't find what they should open.
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: N - Nail (First: Episode 0040)
	Song	Sesame Street Animal Films: Joe Raposo sings George Gershwin's "Funny Face." (First: Episode 0006)
	Cartoon	A girl explains in poem how she failed trying to make a snowman without using snow. (First: Episode 0480)
	Song	"Look Around, Look Around", a song about seasons. (First: Episode 0556)
	SCENE 4	All the deliveries are made, which means Hooper's Store is all out of food. The gang wonders how they can eat something now, when Mercedes points them toward Mrs. Bolinski's window. Mrs. Bolinski has made enough soup to feed all of them and invites them all up for a hot meal.